The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Barry Group plant near Corner Brook pays a better price for crab than a competitor in New Brunswick. New Brunswick fishermen can't...

The basic problem in the fishery is that the provincial fisheries minister has too much control over the industry and  - inevitably - tends ...

The CBC online account is on the Ceeb’s website ( here ). That’s pretty much what everyone has been reporting, namely the impact fisheries m...

Remember that thing about not being able to slide a sheet of paper between the three political parties on major issues? Well, it continu...

Ocean Choice international is a local fishing company.  The key players in the company are from the Sullivan family. You will recall one m...

Your humble e-scribbler said it most recently just a few days ago : The two opposition parties are less concerned about the financial c...

Fish minister Clyde “The Finger” Jackman is going to fight to save a local coast guard co-ordination centre and its dozen jobs. Well, tha...

For those who haven’t watched it yet, the raw video of fisheries minister Clyde Jackman’s news conference on the fisheries restructuring re...

Did anyone really expect that fisheries minister Clyde Jackman would actually tell the people of the province officially, with a news releas...

Anyone who wants to understand the reason why the fishery in this province remains an economic and social disaster need look no further than...

Well, in the world of provincial fisheries not much of any value to people in the fishing industry. In July, the provincial government ann...

Two stories this week each highlighted in their own way the ongoing and largely ignored fisheries crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador. On ...

Here is proof from CTV that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans does not do fisheries research . It is not like this story doesn’t have...

Fisheries reform is a success. Well, that is if “success” means employing legions of bureaucrats to engage in endless meetings that produc...

Remember that fisheries research cash announcement that seemed to have been cobbled together within the past six weeks? Well, there’s a b...

For an administration that has always been better known for delivering the sizzle rather than the steak, Premier Danny Williams’ announcemen...

Those people who worked diligently to smash FPI into tiny bits can see how much their handiwork is benefitting people who don’t live in Newf...

And neither had a paddle to get anyone out of the mess which is the fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador. Latest word is the Sullivan fami...

Derek Butler in the Telegram. As usual there’s way more to the issue than meets the eye. -srbp-

A mere six years ago this month, the Provincial Conservatives were on the campaign trail promising to bring a new approach to the province’s...